I'm Michael, aka Focus Otter 🦦. I'm a software engineer living in the midwest United States. My passion is taking complex aspects of development and simplifying them through written and video tutorials. Current focus is React, TypeScript, NextJS and AWS.
There are three ways to let an AI agent spend your money, and only one of them avoids handing over a secret. In this post, I will show you all three, and why the newest one is really just OAuth with a dollar sign.
From local development to production. I share my thoughts on the simplest path to integrate Vercel with AWS Backend Services.
Sharp is a popular library for resizing images in Node.js. However, getting it to work in an AWS Lambda function can be tricky. This post shows how to deploy it as a Lambda function layer.
AWS Lambda functions can go beyond standard CRUD operations. In this post, I will show you how to add a user to an Amazon Cognito group with a post-confirmation trigger.
